In Response to Customer Demand, Oracle Real Application Testing Now Supports Earlier Releases of Oracle Database to Help Mitigate Risks Associated with System Changes REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 10
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
-- To help organizations more readily institute hardware and software
changes to their Oracle(R) Database systems, including upgrades to Oracle
Database 11g, Oracle today announced that Oracle Real Application Testing now
features support for all releases of Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle9i
Database Release 2.
-- Oracle Real Application Testing allows organizations to undertake
database and operating system upgrades as well as make hardware and system
changes to meet the needs of the business while reducing the cost and risk of
change.
-- Specifically, Oracle Real Application Testing facilitates the testing
and validation of system changes by recording a workload from a production
system and replaying with all of its original characteristics such as timing,
concurrency, and transaction dependencies, on another system for testing
purposes.
-- The software also analyzes the impact of a change on application
performance by identifying degraded SQL statements and advising how to
remediate them.
-- This two-fold approach enables rigorous testing of changes and helps
organizations improve quality of service while reducing the time, risk and
cost of testing such changes. Oracle Real Application Testing reduces the
cost of testing and quality assurance by eliminating the need for extra
hardware and third-party software as well as by reducing testing time from
weeks down to days.
-- Oracle Real Application Testing is a key component of Oracle's
comprehensive application quality management solutions, helping organizations
address testing needs for the entire application environment encompassing
packaged and custom SOA applications, middleware, database, and underlying
infrastructure. These solutions offer strong synthetic load testing,
real-workload testing, functional testing and comprehensive test management
capabilities.
-- An option to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real
Application Testing is priced at $11,500 per processor or $230 per named user.
Supporting Quotes
"We've had our eye on upgrading to Oracle Database 11g," said Arup Nanda,
Senior Director, Database Engineering and Architecture, Starwood Hotels and
Resorts Worldwide. "The availability of Oracle Real Application Testing for
Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database, which our applications run on, is
key to accelerating our migration of those mission critical applications to
Oracle Database 11g in an efficient manner."
"Being able to adapt to change is a strategic imperative for all
successful businesses, whether done by companies that pursue major
transformational change or by those that undertake successive incremental
changes," said David Mitchell, SVP IT Research, Ovum.
"Testing and implementing significant new capabilities in an IT
environment can take months as IT staffs grapple with reproducing their
production environments," said William Hardie, vice president of Database
Product Marketing, Oracle. "Oracle Real Application Testing enables IT staff
to help test changes against real-life conditions and fine-tune changes before
they go live -- speeding deployments to two weeks or less in some cases. In
response to customer demand, we're extending Oracle Real Application Testing
to earlier releases of Oracle Database -- which will help to further drive the
adoption of Oracle Database 11g."
Supporting Resources
Podcast
Oracle Real Application Testing podcast featuring Ovum Summit:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OracleDatabaseInsider/~3/226068945/6256079_Ovum
_RAT.mp3
Webcast
Webcast on Oracle Real Application Testing:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/ebn/live_viewer.main?p_direct=yes&p_shows_id=5617412
Related Resources
Overview of Oracle Real Application Testing:
http://www.oracle.com/database/real-application-testing.html
Oracle Real Application Testing Data Sheet:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/manageability/database/pdf/ds/real-
application-testing-datasheet.pdf
Oracle Real Application Testing Wiki:
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Real+Application+Testing?t=anon
Ovum Summit Whitepaper on Oracle Real Application Testing:
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/dbms/ovum-real-
application-testing.pdf
Learn More About Oracle Application Quality Management Solutions:
http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=6642151&Act=5&pcode=NAMK08041164MPP004
Overview of Oracle Database 11g:
http://www.oracle.com/database
Download a free, evaluation version of Oracle Database 11g:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html
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